- weaving energetically among bodies and spirits and minds,
as they co-habit the contexts of the aesthetic, the individual, and the relational.
. .

Sea and Space Explorations is pleased to host artSpa storefront, a month-long
residency organized by Adam Overton that will feature a number of Los Angeles
artists who also live, work, and/or dabble as healers, therapists, energeticists,
and facilitators of all varieties.

artSpa plans to provide a full calendar of weekly events, including an artist-run
walk-in clinic, experimental meditation groups, workshops, panels, performance
events, and private bodywork sessions, all of which will be facilitated by
artists, dancers, writers, performers, gallerists, et al, who currently work
as bodyworkers, yoga teachers, psychics, psychologists, energy therapists,
and so on.

artSpa Sundays and most events are free to
attend,
though the cost of services and workshops may range from free, to donation,
to $$, as determined by the artists involved.

Is it limiting to believe that meditation is simply a form of sitting, breathing
and quietude? Come join us for a meditation "open-mic" every Sunday
morning and Tuesday evening in November as we explore a more expansive and
experimental view of mindfulness & somatic practices. We welcome the
serious and the irreverent, the traditional and the contemporary, the mundane
and the imaginative. Bring a meditation or two, an open mind, and maybe a
pillow if you care to sit...

cost: pay what you can
space is limited - please rsvp by at least one-day in advance: a@plus1plus1plus.org

Dorit Cypis [Founder] is an artist, Masters of Fine Art,
California Institute of the Arts, and a mediator, Masters of Dispute Resolution,
Pepperdine University. Mining aesthetics, mediation and the somatic arts,
her work explores the relationships between the psychological, the corporeal,
and the political. Since the late 1970’s, Cypis’ museum exhibitions
are immersive laboratories abstracting forms, positions, gestures, and meanings
to shed light on the paradoxes of identity - while her public works/actions
are social/ political extensions, mediating aesthetic abstractions into daily
life. Here form truly meets function and ideology shifts back to experience. Foreign
Exchanges brings together the best of her professional practices
as artist, teacher and mediator.

Fri Nov 9thFriday Afternoon Bodywork

Allison Danielle Behrstock & Adam Overton will
be providing private, doubles massage (two therapists,
one client) with live experimental music on Friday the 9th and the 16th of
November. The cost is $200 for this
unique 1-hour experience. Please contact for more info and to rsvp.

cost: donations requested
space is limited to 7 to 10 couples, so please send an RSVP at least two
days in advance to a@plus1plus1plus.org

Explore some basic DIY massage and touch techniques that don't require any
cream, oil, or special equipment - all we'll need are our hands, fingers,
elbows, gravity, a little common sense, and the willingness to listen to
our partner. Please come with someone you trust, and bring one chair, a couple
pillows, a blanket or two, and something comfortable to wear.

Adam Overton is a composer, performer, and a certified
massage therapist working in and around Los Angeles.

Fri Nov 16thFriday Afternoon Bodywork

Allison Danielle Behrstock & Adam Overton will
be providing private, doubles massage (two therapists,
one client) with live experimental music on Friday the 9th and the 16th of
November. The cost is $200 for this
unique 1-hour experience. Please contact for more info and to rsvp.

PLUS:
1PM Robby Herbst presents Blockages and Blockades -
seeking to exorcise the state within: a participatory workshop on activating
the radical within by attempting to overcome the fear of the state.

7pm,
artSpa Panel: New Age AestheticsArtists
talk about their work in relation to the history, language and
practice of self-help, somatics and psychedeliapanelists:Karl
EricksonRobby
HerbstKrystal
KrunchCarol
McDowell

Nancy Popp practices performance art and yoga in various places, but not
always at the same time. She's shown in spots like Southern Exposure, 18th
Street Arts Complex, the Getty Center, and the Armory Center for the Arts,
and taught yoga for over 10 years. She currently holds classes at Dancing
Shiva in Los Angeles.

Sun Dec 2nd11am
- Noon, Experimental Meditation Group (see week one description
for more details) 1-6pm,
artSpa Walk-in ClinicMichael
Stein-Ross will be offering chair massageLara
Bank will be facilitating a Primal Scream Painting BoothDwyer
Kilcollin will be selling her acclaimed Aura Extract, and related
products. Now is the time to invest in 100% pure artist's authenticity,
live from the creator, founder, and president of AuraSolutionsSarah
Cole & Adam Overton will be performing experimental music & massage